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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Adrianslont » Sun Jan 02, 2022 10:29 am

When you start learning the Greek alphabet on duolingo because of the omicron variant.

Somehow delta didn’t do it to me but omicron intrigued me.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Tne328 » Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:10 pm

... you read language-learning post titles and evaluate them for whether you can come up with a good punchline in "Answers to Discussion Topics."
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby kelvin921019 » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:47 am

you can name more kitchen utensils in Russian than in your native language
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby zenmonkey » Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:58 am

You got some obscure language question and you search the site and find you asked the same question 3, 6, xx years ago and still don't know the answer. And you've forgotten you've asked the question before.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Teango » Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:09 am

zenmonkey wrote:You got some obscure language question and you search the site and find you asked the same question 3, 6, xx years ago and still don't know the answer. And you've forgotten you've asked the question before.

When you ask that same question, only to discover you answered it xx years ago.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Ccaesar » Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:33 am

When the discontinuance or fading of a word in your target language destroys your whole day.
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby zenmonkey » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:21 pm

When you have an in-family joke about not knowing Russian, and all you can say is one silly phrase that you repeat all the time and when your daughter starts Russian and the family chat explodes with laughter because of Duolingo….

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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby zenmonkey » Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:25 am

...if this makes you laugh.

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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby mick33 » Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:21 am

The other day my mom was given a candy bar with a wrapper with the words "коровка вафелбные конфеы шоколад" and she asked me if it was German. She thought that because the person who gave the candy bar to her is from Germany. I said that since the writing was in the Cyrillic alphabet it was most likely Russian, or Ukrainian, candy and she didn't want to believe me :lol: :roll: . YAY, Now I have an excuse to start learning Russian and German ;) .
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Re: You know you're a language nerd when…

Postby Adrianslont » Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:39 am

… when you know Krashenite is not a rare mineral.
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